Overview
- The bill remade by the right‑wing Senate is due for examination in a commission mixte paritaire on Thursday, July 16, where deputies and senators must try to reconcile competing texts.
- Senate amendments would change oversight of regional water agencies, commit to doubling agricultural water storage capacity by 2035, and seek to reintroduce pesticides that had been previously banned.
- A coalition called Collectif Nourrir, which includes Confédération paysanne, Greenpeace and other NGOs, plus five former agriculture ministers, is demanding the bill be withdrawn and plans a Paris mobilisation next Monday in front of the National Assembly.
- The dominant farm union FNSEA and employer group Medef have urged negotiated compromises to protect production and jobs, citing severe drought damage to crops and livestock losses in regions such as the South‑West and Brittany.
- Legal experts and environmental groups point to a prior Constitutional Council censure of a pesticide reauthorisation as a precedent that raises the likelihood of judicial review and could leave contested provisions blocked even if the CMP approves the text.